News about <![CDATA[US6549022043]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[Nokia to Pay Microsoft Billions in Windows Phone Royalties?]]> The Lumia handsets are officially a hit. They may not have sold as many units as the iPhone 5, the Galaxy S III or the Galaxy Note II, but they are still some of the most popular smartphones released in 2012.

This has sparked a much-needed win for Nokia (NYSE:

]]> <![CDATA[Market Wrap for Thursday, January 24: Major Averages End Mixed as Apple Drags Down Nasdaq]]> Stocks were mixed on Thursday as a disappointing earnings report from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) dragged the Nasdaq down while the Dow gained.

With earnings season in high gear, a number of other notable names were active on Thursday including Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Nokia (NYSE:

]]> <![CDATA[Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Apple Continues Fall, Netflix Still Has its Legs]]> Toward the end of trading Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.40 percent to 13,834.77 while the NASDAQ fell 0.64 percent to 3,133.63. The S&P also rose, increasing 0.11 percent to 1,496.45.

Top Headline In earnings this morning there were a few notable releases, one that made headlines was Nokia (NYSE:

]]> <![CDATA[Research In Motion Could be the Next IBM]]> Eight years ago, IBM (NYSE: IBM) sold its personal computer business to Lenovo. In the years since, Lenovo has become the world's second-largest PC manufacturer behind Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). For a brief time, Lenovo actually took the lead.

Now Lenovo hopes to imitate that success with its

]]> <![CDATA[Mid-Day Market Update: Markets Mixed, Apple Continues to Tumble]]> Mid-way through trading Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.30 percent to 13,821.77 while the NASDAQ fell 0.62 percent to 3,134.63. The S&P also fell, decreasing 0.05 percent to 1,494.45.

Top Headline In earnings this morning there were a few notable releases, one that made headlines was Nokia (NYSE: NOK) which

]]> <![CDATA[Mid-Morning Market Update: Apple Falling as Netflix Posts a Massive Rally]]> Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.47 percent to 13,843.77 while the NASDAQ fell 0.25 percent to 3,145.63. The S&P also rose, increasing 0.46 percent to 1,499.45.

Top Headline In earnings this morning there were a few notable releases, one that made headlines was Nokia (NYSE: NOK)

]]> <![CDATA[UPDATE: Nokia Posts Q4 Profit]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) posted a profit in the fourth quarter.

Nokia posted a quarterly profit of 0.05 euros per share, versus a year-ago loss of 0.29 euros per share. However, analysts were expecting earnings of 0.02 euros per share.

It posted an operating profit of 439 million euros,

]]> <![CDATA[Earnings Scheduled For January 24, 2013]]> 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) is estimated to report its Q4 earnings at $1.41 per share on revenue of $7.18 billion.

Baxter International (NYSE: BAX) is projected to report its Q4 earnings at $1.26 per share on revenue of $3.72 billion.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is expected

]]> <![CDATA[Is RIM Going to be Acquired?]]> Shares of Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) soared in the pre-market on Tuesday, after the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, told a German paper that RIM would consider strategic alliances, including the possibility of a sale of its hardware production unit and/or licensing out its software.

RIM's shares were up

]]> <![CDATA[Can Research In Motion Come Back from its Failed Retail Strategy?]]> Less than six years ago, Wireless Giant and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) had an idea. Together they would build an empire of BlackBerry retail outlets.

Similar to the Apple Store (NASDAQ: AAPL) concept, BlackBerry stores would focus exclusively on selling products produced by Research In Motion.

This

]]> <![CDATA[The Week Ahead: Tech Earnings in Focus]]> The last full-week of January will be filled with earnings. With the major financials having reported, the market will next shift its focus to tech.

Investors should note that U.S. markets will be closed Monday for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

Kicking off tech earnings, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia Cuts 300 Jobs, Sends Hundreds More to India]]> Most companies celebrate success by launching new products and/or hiring additional employees. They pay down debt, pay out dividends or reinvest their funds to produce even better products in the future.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has decided to take a different approach to success. The company expects to report

]]> <![CDATA[Apple Breaks Below $500]]> Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) dropped below $500 on Tuesday, falling nearly 2 percent to around $489.

There appeared to be no fundamental news to account for the drop in Apple. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company had cut orders with its suppliers for

]]> <![CDATA[Five Things BlackBerry 10 Needs to Beat Apple's iPhone]]> Investors love to fulfill their own prophecies. In 2011, they believed in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), bought into the company's story and turned it into one of the most successful stocks of the year. In 2012, they expressed doubt and abandoned the stock even as new Apple products continued

]]> <![CDATA[Windows Phone Attempts to Capitalize on BlackBerry Outage]]> With only a couple weeks to go before BlackBerry 10 arrives, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is doing everything it can to ensure that consumers are excited for its arrival.

Unfortunately, a BlackBerry outage should not have been one of them.

According to Reuters, BlackBerry users have been experiencing

]]> <![CDATA[MKM Says 'Aggressively' Load Up on Nokia Shorts Following Rally]]> MKM Partners' Micahel Genovese told investors to use strong performance in Nokia (NYSE: NOK) over the last two trading sessions to "aggressively" load up on shorts.

Genovese believes Nokia's positive Q4 guidance given on Thursday morning demonstrate a loss of market share in the Windows Phone ecosystem.

]]> <![CDATA[Five Companies That Could Purchase Skullcandy]]> Shares of Skullcandy (NASDAQ: SKUL) rallied on Wednesday after Bloomberg suggested that the company could be a takeover target.

Like other recent IPOs, Skullcandy's shares have slid since the company went public. In mid-2011 SKUL was trading around $20. With its recent tumble, SKUL has fallen into

]]> <![CDATA[Mid-Day Market Update: Markets Mixed, Molycorp Takes a Beating]]> Midway through trading Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.20 percent to 13,417.20 while the NASDAQ fell 0.03 percent to 3,104.25. The S&P also rose, increasing 0.29 percent to 1,465.25.

Top Headline Nokia (NYSE: NOK) shot up over 14 percent in early trading after the company announced it had sold over

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia Jumps 18% on Positive Estimates]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) rallied more than 18 percent Thursday after announcing that the company expects its Devices & Services business to exceed expectations and achieve underlying profitability in the fourth quarter of 2012.

The Lumia creator currently estimates that it sold 4.4 million Lumia devices in the quarter.

]]> <![CDATA[Mid-Morning Market Update: Markets Rising, Nokia Turning Around?]]> Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.35 percent to 13,437.20 while the NASDAQ rose 0.37 percent to 3,117.25. The S&P also rose, increasing 0.45 percent to 1,467.25.

Top Headline Nokia (NYSE: NOK) shot up over 14 percent in early trading after the company announced it had sold

]]> <![CDATA[Gorilla Glass 3 May be Headed to Apple Products]]> Glass manufacturer Corning (NYSE: GLW) has unveiled its latest glass technology ahead of next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to Apple Insider. Included is the new Gorilla Glass 3, which is a more scratch-resistant, stronger version of that used in iPhones and iPads.

If the

]]> <![CDATA[Five Reasons Why PlayStation 4 Will Play Used Games]]> Sony (NYSE: SNE) is getting a lot of attention this week after it was revealed that the Japanese tech giant filed a patent for a new method to keep consumers from playing used games.

The technology is fascinating, to say the least. Sony believes that it can apply an

]]> <![CDATA[InterDigital Files New ITC Complaint Against Nokia, Samsung, ZTE, Huawei]]> InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiaries InterDigital Communications, Inc., InterDigital Technology Corporation, IPR Licensing, Inc. and InterDigital Holdings, Inc. (collectively, “InterDigital”) filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (“USITC”) against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Futurewei Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Huawei Technologies (USA), Huawei Device USA, Inc., Nokia Corporation,

]]> <![CDATA[Benzinga Market Primer, Monday, December 31: New Year's Eve Edition]]> Futures Indicate Lower Open on Imminent Cliff

U.S. equity futures were higher but the Futures-Fair Value was lower, indicating a lower open for Wall Street Monday. Late Friday, futures crashed as investors feared that politicians were heading into the weekend neither with a deal nor a framework for such an agreement.

]]> <![CDATA[Acacia Subsidiary Acquires Patents from Nokia Siemens Networks]]> Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today that a subsidiary has acquired patents for Wireless Infrastructure and User Equipment Technology from Nokia Siemens Networks (NYSE: NOK) (NYSE: SI)

]]> <![CDATA[Benzinga's Top Pre-Market Losers]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) dipped 3.25% to $3.87 in the pre-market session. Nokia's trailing-twelve-month ROE is -42.89%.

United States Steel (NYSE: X) shares dropped 1.73% to $23.23 in pre-market trading. United States Steel's PEG ratio is 4.44.

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) dipped 1.46% to $25.67 in the

]]> <![CDATA[Acacia Subsidiary Enters License Agreement with Nokia-Siemens Networks]]> Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today its subsidiary, ADAPTIX, INC., has entered into a licensing agreement with Nokia-Siemens Networks (NYSE: NOK) (NYSE: SI).

]]> <![CDATA[Benzinga Market Primer, Thursday, December 27]]> Futures Flat on Debt Ceiling Fears

U.S. equity futures were flat in early trading Thursday following a letter from Treasury Secretary Geithner to leaders stating that the debt ceiling would be breached on December 31 unless the Fiscal Cliff were to be avoided and the ceiling raised. Geithner has stated that

]]> <![CDATA[Apple Raises Market Share to 53%, Ousting Android from Top Spot]]> Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has become the number-one smartphone player in America by obtaining 53.3 percent of new smartphone sales over a 12 week period.

The sales data, compiled by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, ended on November 25 and showed a pattern of growth for Apple. During a previous study

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia to Take on Microsoft Surface with Windows RT Tablet]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is expected to resume development of its unconfirmed Windows RT tablet.

The device, which is thought to contain a 10-inch display, would be the next major device to use the Windows RT platform after Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) own tablet, Surface. HTC was expected to

]]> <![CDATA[iPhone 5 Draws a Crowd of Just One Person in China]]> Investors thought that they had seen the worst of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) when the third-generation iPad arrived in China. While the device drew modest crowds and plenty of stock in America, Chinese consumers failed to deliver the same level of excitement. In fact, no more than

]]> <![CDATA[Will Levi's Build Larger Pockets to Accommodate Your Next Smartphone?]]> There was a time when tech companies worked hard to make their devices as small as possible. From cellular phones and netbook computers to game systems and other gadgets, the tech industry was once obsessed with size.

The industry is still obsessed, but instead of making products smaller, many of the

]]> <![CDATA[Lumia 620 Assures Nokia Will Dominate Windows Phone Market]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is already the leading manufacturer of Windows Phone devices, is set to maintain that dominance in 2013 with the release of the Lumia 620.

Industry sources have told DigiTimes that by launching the new smartphone -- which is priced at $250 -- sales

]]> <![CDATA[Windows Phone to Grow 150% in 2013, Study Shows]]> A new study by DigiTimes Research found that shipments of the Windows Phone platform -- both WP7 and WP8 -- will increase by 150 percent next year.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) partners are expected to ship 52.5 million units in 2013. This will enable the Windows maker to gain

]]> <![CDATA[Apple at Loggerheads with China Mobile]]> There are a number of reasons for Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) precipitous decline on Wednesday. Benzinga discussed the rumor that a securities clearinghouse was going to raise its margin requirements for Apple shares here.

Other analysts cited Wednesday's news that Apple rival Nokia (NYSE: NOK) had

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia Rises 4% After Selling HQ]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is up more than four percent today after announcing that it has sold its headquarters in Espoo, Finland for 170 million euros. Nokia will lease back its head office building -- where it has operated since 1997 -- after the sale is completed at the

]]> <![CDATA[Google's Nexus 4 Sold Out Until After Christmas]]> The popular LG-developed smartphone has sold out again, leaving some buyers out of luck as they attempt to complete their holiday shopping.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) currently lists the 8GB Nexus 4 as being sold out. The company left a familiar message for eager customers: "We are out of

]]> <![CDATA[RIM, Green Mountain and Other Top Performing Nasdaq Stocks in November]]> Here is a quick look at some of the top-performing Nasdaq stocks in the past month. These companies all have a market cap of more than $500 million and their share prices are more than 40 percent higher than 30 days ago.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) shares

]]> <![CDATA[Smartphone Study is Good News for Apple, Bad News for Canon]]> Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Samsung, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and other smartphone manufacturers can rejoice in the news that consumers are repeatedly turning to their cellular devices to perform a wide array of tasks.

According to PCMag, 82 percent of smartphone

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia's Lumia 920 Sold Out on Black Friday]]> November 23 may have been known as "Black Friday." But it was a very bright and boisterous day for Nokia (NYSE: NOK).

According to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, Nokia sold out of its flagship phone -- the Lumia 920 -- last

]]> <![CDATA[Stocks To Watch For November 26, 2012]]> Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are:

Wall Street expects SeaDrill Limited (NYSE: SDRL) to report its Q3 earnings at $0.68 per share on revenue of $1.11 billion. SeaDrill shares rose 1.49% to close at $39.46 on Friday.

Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will

]]> <![CDATA[Barron's Recap (11/24/12): Trouble in Tea Land]]> This weekend in Barron's online: the prospects for Hain Celestial, Atlantic City, PPH and European stocks, as well as a look at jazz from HBO's Treme.

Cover Story

"Unnaturally Good" by Bill Alpert.

Organic food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) has built a small empire through two decades of product

]]> <![CDATA[Nokia Completes Acquisition of Earthmine]]> Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has now completed the acqusition of earthmine inc. As announced on November 13, earthmine's reality capture and processing technologies will become integral parts of the 3D map making capabilities of HERE, the first location cloud to deliver the world's best maps and location experiences across

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